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I wonder if there's a business in offering to fly a swarm of large drones in the Fresnel zone of the customer's choice.
Unless you also have a way of recharging them...
[EDIT] Or there are the Facebook planes: http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/30/9074925/facebook-aquila-so...
I wonder if there's a business in offering to fly a swarm of large drones in the Fresnel zone of the customer's choice.
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Unless you also have a way of recharging them...
Maybe Aerial Re-charging via other drones? [EDIT] Or there are the Facebook planes: http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/30/9074925/facebook-aquila-so...
Also, the weather over the Channel can be quite unforgiving.
Drones are not the end of the line, though. A quick Google search for "hft neutrino" shows how creative these guys could be in their insatiable quests for shaving off microseconds.
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The point is that only UK citizens simplify that to "Europe" instead of saying "Continental Europe". Also, it is strange that they only exclude themselves, not Scandinavia or Iceland. This is really a political issue. Here in Germany nobody would ever think of excluding UK when talking about "Europe". The same goes for France, Belgium, and so on. And nobody would ever have to explicitly say "European Union" just to m…
I think many people in the UK admire the Swiss and Norwegian models of participating in the "European project". The country retains sovereignty and only implements laws that suit its citizens. I have to say I am surprised by your comment, as it assumes that politicians are responsible for their country's perspective on Europe? Surely it is the other way round, and the politicians have an obligation to represent their…
They are responsible for the country's actions towards other countries. To make it more clear: I deeply hope that they are not really backed by the population, and that they will either notice that on their own, or that the next elections which show a shift towards "working together" instead of "against each other" in Europe.
We can't solve all issues in Europe if every country optimized only for themselves, ignoring their neighbours.
> the politicians have an obligation to represent their citizens' viewpoints fairly and transparently
Note that there are also European politicians (the European parliament), which are elected as well and serve their citizens' viewpoints as well. Interestingly, those manage to find better solutions, thinking about all Europeans despite representing just a subset of them. Unfortunately, the European parliament has not much power in the overall EU process, which is another real pity.
> It does seem that some EU politicians (read: Merkel) are only discovering this right now.
Our German politicians have (and always had) a disproportionally large influence in Europe. So there was never a need for Germany to distance from Europe. However, this also led to suboptimal solutions in the past, to say the least. But to me, this is not a sign that the "European project" doesn't work. For me, it shows that we aren't consequent enough. The member governments (read: European commission) have too much influence and the European parliament (which is the only instance that equally represents all European citizens) doesn't have enough influence.
I wonder if there's a business in offering to fly a swarm of large drones in the Fresnel zone of the customer's choice.
Google has Project Loon which sounds vaguely similar. In theory you could have a faster transatlantic signal path by putting microwave relays on blimps at the right altitude.
'The mast will be erected in the western part of the Richborough Power Station, a place referred to as “The Banana Land” (I suppose the name comes from the pseudo-tropical climate created by the station?).'
But apparently it is only referring to that former power plant location.
Better theory yet: look at the shape of land surrounded by train tracks and River Stour on Google maps [2].
"inhabitants of the Western world need to realize that the tallest structures they can see in the landscape are the face of what may be a new kind of God: finance." Oh come on, so much drama for a slick lean tower in sparsely populated land, barely visible to anyone but local fishermen. Compare it to, say, this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar This is a very prominent military installation that spoiled short…
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"Europe" here refers to the continent, which the lands of the UK clearly are not a part of. It does not refer to the European Union.
The point is that only UK citizens simplify that to "Europe" instead of saying "Continental Europe". Also, it is strange that they only exclude themselves, not Scandinavia or Iceland. This is really a political issue. Here in Germany nobody would ever think of excluding UK when talking about "Europe". The same goes for France, Belgium, and so on. And nobody would ever have to explicitly say "European Union" just to m…
Also culturally, I'd say the UK has more in common with the other Anglophone nations than it does with most of Europe.
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Maybe Aerial Re-charging via other drones? [EDIT] Or there are the Facebook planes: http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/30/9074925/facebook-aquila-so...
They have to maintain steady position (impossible for planes). Also, the weather over the Channel can be quite unforgiving. Drones are not the end of the line, though. A quick Google search for "hft neutrino" shows how creative these guys could be in their insatiable quests for shaving off microseconds.
"inhabitants of the Western world need to realize that the tallest structures they can see in the landscape are the face of what may be a new kind of God: finance." Oh come on, so much drama for a slick lean tower in sparsely populated land, barely visible to anyone but local fishermen. Compare it to, say, this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar This is a very prominent military installation that spoiled short…
Ares and Plutus, surely.